Int J Mol Med 32: [Related article:] 653-660, 2013; DOI:
10.3892/ijmm.2013.1437
Following the publication of the above article, a
concerned reader drew the Editor's attention to the fact that,
regarding the EdU assay experiments shown in Fig. 6 on p. 657,
discrete areas of the cells appeared to overlap in different data
panels, which were intended to show differently performed
experiments in two distinct cell lines (the SW1990 and Panc-1 cell
lines), albeit the areas were inverted in the case of the 'LV-RNAi'
data panels. Moreover, within these areas of overlapping cells,
certain of the cells were uniquely found to be coloured differently
in the associated data panels. In addition, in Fig. 9 on p. 658,
the bands shown for the caspase-3 and caspase-3 experiments with
the SW1990 cell line looked remarkably similar, suggesting that the
data in this figure may also have been assembled incorrectly.
After having conducted an internal investigation of
the data in this paper, the Editor of International Journal of
Molecular Medicine has decided that this article should be
retracted from the publication on the grounds of an overall lack of
confidence in the presented data. The authors were asked for an
explanation to account for these concerns, but the Editorial Office
did not receive a reply. The Editor sincerely apologizes to the
readership for any incovenience caused, and we thank the reader for
drawing this matter to our attention.
